Saint Theophan the Recluse

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“New Year, New Happiness” – Is it Valid for the Whole Year?

“New Year, New Happiness” – this is how we greet, but has anyone thought how can this coming year be new and what will be new in it?
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Why Doesn’t God Fulfil All My Prayers?

Out of everything that we ask God, He fulfils only what is truly necessary, as a mother who does not do everything that her child wants, but only that what makes him happy.
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Letter to a Bride – Do Not Allow Trouble to Take You by Surprise

It is two of you now. In two, joys are stronger and sorrows are easier to endure. May God help you so that nothing will separate you and that you have one heart and one path in life.
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Our Duty Is to Spread the Truth of God

As for the living, we live poorly, so at least we should spread the Truth of God without any additions. It does not belong to us but it was given to us. It is our duty to share it and spread it…
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This is what you have to do in order to be fruitful to Christ

Same as the wheat is buried in earth in order to be fruitful, so does man need to receive the symbolic “death” so that he may live for Christ as a new man. 
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Man is not saved without a wilful struggle

The seed does not grow without water or earth and man is not saved without wilful struggles. Like rain does not fall without clouds, neither man cannot be pleasing to God and be saved without a clean…
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You cannot pray?

When you are too tired to follow your canon, especially at night, after a long, tiring day, here’s how you should pray.
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